# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_September 16 1983_S4
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

1.21 - Change number to 1.14, Constitutions of Congregations (Agenda 1656).
1.37 - Definitions, c. Remove last sentence (Res. 5-36)a
1.37 - Definitions. Change f to read: "A department is a functional unit which is responsible to a
board." (Res. 5-50)
2.55 - Commissions. Add to list in b "A Commission on Worship" (Res. 5-06)
2.68 - Standing Committees. New bylaw adopted in Res. 5-36.
2.181- Role and Membership. Change third line of b to read: .. additional" (typo)
2.213- Functions. Insert a new paragraph c and reletter the following paragraphs (Res. 5-37):
c. serve as the only sending agency through which workers and funds are sent to
the mission areas of the Synod, even though programs are supported by Districts
or other entities.
2.223- Functions. Res. 2-17 revised paragraph a to read:
a. assist congregations in arranging and carrying out a comprehensive and
effective program of Christian education, especially counseling, that the most
effective education agencies available to the church for equipping children and
youth for ministry are the full-time Lutheran elementary and secondary schools,
so that the Gospel of Jesus Christ may become even more effective in the life of
the individual Christian and of the congregation.
2.223- Functions. Eliminate present c and c, 1, and 2, dealing with worship and reletter
following paragraphs. (Res. 5-06) (Also Agenda 1667)
2.225- Standing Committees. Eliminate "Worship" (Res. 5-06)
2.233- Functions, k. Introduce this paragraph with an asterisk and make the following footnote:
"*Provision in effect for 1983-86 triennium only. See 1983 Res. 6-03."
2.235- Standing Committees. Add to the list: "Pastoral Ministry' (Res 511B)
2.521- Membership. Eliminate from the preceding heading the line:
"(Effective until the 1986 convention)" (Res. 5-17)
2.551- Membership. Since the Lutheran Medical Mission Association no longer exists, the
Commission resolved to revise the bylaw to read:
The Commission on Health and Healing shall consist of five members, at
least one of whom shall be a clergyman, appointed by the President. The
President of the Wheat Ridge Foundation shall serve as an advisory
member of the Commission.